Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud

Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud (Doc ID 2066260.1)

Overview

This document is a high-level overview of Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud and includes frequently asked questions as well as a glossary. Certification content and instructions for the different infrastructure services are now available in the dedicated documents for each service, as shown in the following table:

Oracle Cloud Service	Reference Document
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute and certified Oracle Database cloud services	Document 2517025.1, Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud at Customer Compute and certified Oracle Database cloud services	Document 2517035.1, Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Cloud at Customer
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic - Compute Classic and certified Oracle Database cloud services	Document 2517045.1, Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic

In This Document

• Section 1: Introduction
• Section 2: Frequently Asked Questions
• Section 3: Terminology
• Section 4: References

The current version of this document can be obtained in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2066260.1. There is a change log at the end of this document.

Section 1: Introduction

Unlike with Software as a Service (SaaS), with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud you purchase (rather than subscribe to) Oracle E-Business Suite, and you retain full responsibility for maintaining your own instances (for example, in patching to the latest level). The Oracle E-Business Suite software you run on Oracle Cloud is the same as you are used to running on-premises, and looks just the same to your users and (in many respects) to your DBAs.

Running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud can benefit your organization in many ways. These include the ability to:

• Reduce overall infrastructure costs and manage them more easily
• Allocate infrastructure temporarily for non-continuous activities such as:
  • Proof of concept testing
  • Functional and technical testing
  • User training
  • Customization development

Key points regarding deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud include:

• Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.2 (12.2.3 and later) and 12.1.3 are certified to run on Oracle Cloud.
• Oracle E-Business Suite cloud deployments all require a subscription to a cloud service of your choice. You can also subscribe to optional database services designed to cater for your specific requirements.
• Automation is provided for a selection of deployment and management scenarios. These automation capabilities are continually being extended and enhanced.
• Before you perform a new production implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud, you must purchase the requisite product licenses via your Oracle sales representative or the Oracle Store.

Section 2: Frequently Asked Questions

• How does Oracle E-Business Suite pricing and licensing work on Oracle Cloud?
• How do I receive support for Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud?
• Is there a dedicated blog where I can read the latest news and post comments?
• Can I run older releases of Oracle E-Business Suite (such as Release 11i) or older releases of Oracle Database (such as 11.2.0.3) on Oracle Cloud?
• What resources do I need to migrate an Oracle E-Business Suite instance to Oracle Cloud?
• What prerequisites (including patches) must be met to lift and shift an on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite instance to Oracle Cloud using EBS Cloud Tools?
• What are performance and tuning best practices for Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud?
• Can I migrate my Oracle E-Business Suite instances on any operating system to Oracle Cloud?
• My Oracle E-Business Suite environment currently runs on top of Oracle VM running Linux x86-64. Can I migrate this environment to Oracle Cloud using automation?
• My Oracle E-Business Suite environment currently runs on top of a third party virtualization solution running Linux x86-64. Can I migrate this environment to Oracle Cloud using automation?
• Can I provision Oracle E-Business Suite on an IP network or on a Virtual Cloud Network?
• How do I clone my cloud environment?
• Can I use AutoConfig to manage an Oracle E-Business Suite configuration on Oracle Cloud in the same way I do on-premises?
• How do I integrate Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud with Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Internet Directory for single sign-on?
• How do I integrate Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle Identity Cloud Service?
• Does the lift and shift process move my integrations over to the Oracle Cloud?
• Does the lift and shift process reconfigure all services that were running on the on-premises server on the Oracle Cloud virtual machine?

How does Oracle E-Business Suite pricing and licensing work on Oracle Cloud?

You must subscribe to the cloud services that meet your chosen deployment needs.

If you opt to run Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute or Compute Classic only:

• You can use your existing Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, and Oracle Application Server licenses: we refer to this as the bring your own license(BYOL) model.
• Oracle E-Business Suite is supplied with a restricted use Database Enterprise Edition license and additional licenses are required to run with customizations.
• Running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute or Compute Classic does not require any change to your existing Oracle E-Business Suite licensing requirements (for example, for the number of CPUs).

If you opt to run your Oracle E-Business database on an Oracle Database cloud service or on an Exadata cloud service:

• You must subscribe to an Oracle Database cloud service or an Exadata cloud service separately.
• To run the Oracle E-Business Suite database on an Oracle Database cloud service, you need to subscribe to at least the Enterprise Edition of your Oracle Database cloud service.
  • If you wish to use Oracle RAC, you need to subscribe to the Extreme Performance option of the Enterprise Edition of your Oracle Database cloud service.

Notes regarding Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE):

• A license to use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is included in Oracle Database cloud service and Exadata cloud service subscriptions.
• To run a TDE-enabled database on Compute, you must have or acquire the Advanced Security Option (ASO).
• When you use Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to provision Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the database on a database cloud service, TDE is automatically enabled; therefore, backups of these environments are by default TDE-enabled. If you provision an environment with the database on Compute from a TDE-enabled backup you must have or acquire an ASO license.
• Additionally, you can optionally choose to enable TDE for a new environment on Compute, or for an environment on Compute that is created from a backup of a non-TDE source environment. In these cases, you must also have or acquire an ASO license.

How do I receive support for Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud?

For general guidance about obtaining support, refer to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2181340.1, Obtaining Support for Oracle Applications on Oracle Cloud - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).

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Srini